permaculture

["Jerome Osentowski" <jerome@crmpi.org>]

Andrew,  Robyn gave you some good advise,   I designed an planted out a 
system that I called Bio-Islands for a golf course here in Basalt. See our
web site for a tour and article on the project.  It is working well today.
We just finished a design for a one acre edable food park   that will be
a center focus for a development in so. colo. , and it uses the same
hedgerow  concept.  Sounds like an up hill battle with  all the nozzle heads
around you.  When we teach the design course , we talks about site
selection. we have areas like that here in colo. where there are spraying
on all the farm in the area, but still there some farmers  that manage to
grow organic within that system.  I  am lucky to be totally away from all ag
in the middle of a p&J forest.  Give it a try, if it doesn't work find a
cleaner site.   jerome
--
Jerome Osentowski, Director
Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute
PO Box 631
Basalt, CO 81621   U.S.A.

Tel/fax (970) 927-4158    E mail: jerome@crmpi.org

For more information, please visit our web site at <<www.crmpi.org>>


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>From: "Andrew Clements" <jara@otenet.gr>
>To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: [permaculture] Building up natural resistance for Robyn
>Date: Wed, Sep 17, 2003, 12:39 AM
>

> Dear Robyn ,
>
>    Thank you very much for the advice. I will put in lots of flowering
> plants around the trees and introduce some turkeys and chickens. I will also
> contact the local insectary but won't the surrounding farmers' spraying
> knock out any helpful insects I introduce ? They spray on average about 8-10
> times per growing season. Also would it be wise for me to reduce my spraying
> in the beginning rather than completely stopping it so as to give the trees
> time to adjust and for the ecosystem to build up its natural resistance ?
>
>    Thanking you in advance.
>
> Andrew.
>
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